Schultz, many Iowans still solidly back voter ID laws

12:58 AM,
Dec. 16, 2013

Secretary of State Matt Schultz

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Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz remains bullish on voter ID laws, despite years of legislative defeats and scant evidence of the problem they're meant to prevent.

Such laws, enacted in states across the country in recent years, require voters to show a photo ID at the polls and are aimed at stopping voter impersonation - when an imposter shows, claiming to be someone else.

But reported impersonation cases are extremely rare in Iowa. Schultz's partnership with the DCI to investigate voter fraud has yielded no such incidents, although there was one apparent case in Linn County last ...